Law reviews are biased in favor of publishing their own faculty and
that bias hurts the quality of the articles selected for publication.
Those are the conclusions of a new article by Albert Yoon entitled "Editorial Bias in Legal Academia," forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Analysis. The paper has three key findings:

law reviews are systematically biased in favor of publishing articles by their own faculty

the bias in favor of publishing the school's own faculty results in lower quality articles

faculty tend to publish their lower quality articles in their own school's law reviews